John Calipari has always been known as a great recruiter and it has overshadowed how great a basketball coach he is.
Sally Jenkins of The Washington Post has written how people need to see the brilliance of Calipari bringing together a new team every year and how he adapts to his team and not have them adapt to him.
Still, five-star recruits don’t completely explain this team, and they especially don’t explain how it survived in the tournament with Washington first sidelined and then limited with a sprained foot. Or how four freshmen iced a veteran Houston team in the clutch in the region semifinals Friday despite trailing by three with less than a minute to go.